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Reef Adapt: A tool to inform climate-smart marine restoration and management decisions
Communications biology, Vol.7(1), pp.1-12
30/10/2024
PMID: 39478133
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Abstract
A critical component of ecosystem restoration projects involves using genetic data to select source material that will enhance success under current and future climates. However, the complexity and expense of applying genetic data is a barrier to its use outside of specialised scientific contexts. To help overcome this barrier, we developed Reef Adapt ( www.reefadapt.org ), an innovative, globally applicable and expandable web platform that incorporates genetic, biophysical and environmental prediction data into marine restoration and assisted gene flow planning. The Reef Adapt tool provides maps that identify areas with populations suited to user-specified restoration/recipient sites under current and future climate scenarios. We demonstrate its versatility and practicality with four case studies of ecologically and evolutionarily diverse taxa: the habitat-forming corals Pocillopora damicornis and Acropora kenti, and macroalgae Phyllospora comosa and Ecklonia radiata. Reef Adapt is a management-ready tool to aid restoration and conservation efforts amidst ongoing habitat degradation and climate change.
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- Title
- Reef Adapt: A tool to inform climate-smart marine restoration and management decisions
- Creators
- Georgina V Wood - The University of Western AustraliaKingsley J Griffin - The University of Western AustraliaMirjam van der Mheen - The University of Western AustraliaMartin F Breed - Flinders UniversityJane M Edgeloe - The University of Western AustraliaCamille Grimaldi - The University of Western AustraliaAntoine J P Minne - The University of Western AustraliaIva Popovic - The University of QueenslandKaren Filbee-Dexter - The University of Western AustraliaMadeleine J H van Oppen - Australian Institute of Marine ScienceThomas Wernberg - The University of Western AustraliaMelinda A Coleman - The University of Western Australia
- Publication Details
- Communications biology, Vol.7(1), pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Identifiers
- 991013253361102368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2024
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article